Virtual bound levels in a gap of the essential spectrum of the Schroedinger operator with a weakly perturbed periodic potential

arXiv1505.07381MaRDI QIDQ6262153FDOQ6262153

Publication date: 27 May 2015

Abstract: In the space

L_{2} (R^{d})

we consider the Schr"odinger operator

H_{g} a m m a = - D e l t a + V (x) c d o t + g a m m a W (x) c d o t

, where

V (x) = V (x_{1}, x_{2}, d o t s, x_{d})

is a periodic function with respect to all the variables,

g a m m a

is a small real coupling constant and the perturbation

W (x)

tends to zero sufficiently fast as

| x | i g h t a r r o w i n f t y

. We study so called virtual bound levels of the operator

H_{g} a m m a

, that is those eigenvalues of

H_{g} a m m a

which are born at the moment

g a m m a = 0

in a gap

(l a m b d a_{-},, l a m b d a_{+})

of the spectrum of the unperturbed operator

H_{0} = - D e l t a + V (x) c d o t

from an edge of this gap while

g a m m a

increases or decreases. For a definite perturbation

(W (x) g e 0)

we investigate the number of such levels and an asymptotic behavior of them and of the corresponding eigenfunctions as

g a m m a i g h t a r r o w 0

in two cases: for the case where the dispersion function of

H_{0}

, branching from an edge of

(l a m b d a_{-}, l a m b d a_{+})

, is non-degenerate in the Morse sense at its extremal set and for the case where it has there a non-localized degeneration of the Morse-Bott type. In the first case in the gap there is a finite number of virtual eigenvalues if

d < 3

and we count the number of them, and in the second case in the gap there is an infinite number of ones, if the codimension of the extremal manifold is less than

3

. For an indefinite perturbation we estimate the multiplicity of virtual bound levels. Furthermore, we show that if the codimension of the extremal manifold is at least

3

at both edges of the gap

(l a m b d a_{-},, l a m b d a_{+})

, then under additional conditions there is a threshold for the birth of the impurity spectrum in the gap, that is

s i g m a (H_{g} a m m a) c a p (l a m b d a_{-},, l a m b d a_{+}) = e m p t y s e t

for a small enough |gamma|.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of partial differential operators (47F05) General theory of ordinary differential operators (47E05) Spectral theory and eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations (35Pxx)

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